FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 217

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DUGGER (Sponsor) AND ENTLICHER (Co-sponsor).

0907L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 115, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to electronic voter identification verification systems.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 115, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 115.230, to read as follows:

            115.230. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any election authority may use an electronic voter identification system or an electronic signature pad to verify a voter's address, registration status, and signature information at any polling place. Any such system or pad shall be able to read identifying information from an official Missouri driver's license or nondriver's license issued by the department of revenue, and shall be capable of allowing an election authority to manually enter the voter's information from a valid form of personal identification containing the voter's signature.

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